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i do think there is this weird impulse i find in this election. i can't tell if that is an overcompensation from mitt romney and can't tell if it is because the message of rugged individualism is appealing. you can imagine a campaign that mitt romney ran that was much more pragmatic about poor economic performance. >> i think there is a lot of coded language being used in this election. it is funny how obama becomes the entitlement president but we never hear george bush as entitlement when he was helping the rich. romney is described as the entitlement candidate. i think it is also coded racial language and it's the strategy in 2012. it is really problematic. it is almost as if the romney people had too much caffeine. the 24 hour news i think jumped on this so fast and romney had to sort of agree with the president. >> they didn't jump on it that fast in the sense that this was on july 5th. no one said anything and then here is the fox business hosts and guests responding to the outrage over this that he would make such a statement. >> small busi
i do think there is this weird impulse i find in this election. i can't tell if that is an overcompensation from mitt romney and can't tell if it is because the message of rugged individualism is appealing. you can imagine a campaign that mitt romney ran that was much more pragmatic about poor economic performance. >> i think there is a lot of coded language being used in this election. it is funny how obama becomes the entitlement president but we never hear george bush as entitlement...
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why don't democrats win all the elections? we have this two party seasonal. is it that the media has fooled everybody? >> i think the median voter theory has some big theoretical weaknesses. i think, b, 2010 was the worst financial crisis in a very, very long time and people were in tons of objective economic pain and voted out the incumbent party. and third of all, yes, i do think that if the app stemmic terms upon which you view thicks does not allow for the possibility of a symmetry, it is impossible to communicate. so people do not see it asymmetry. asymmetry itself is defined out of bounds of how this is reported. so the mandate is a perfect example. when you say that, when you say he moved to the left, that is because you cannot come up with any kind of objective metric. anything outside the frame of who's saying what to compare things. . they don't have the vocabulary to do that. to me, it shows this fundamental absence of the perceptual skills to actually have the conversation. >> it's a media problem, but it's also a movement problem. if you have a s
why don't democrats win all the elections? we have this two party seasonal. is it that the media has fooled everybody? >> i think the median voter theory has some big theoretical weaknesses. i think, b, 2010 was the worst financial crisis in a very, very long time and people were in tons of objective economic pain and voted out the incumbent party. and third of all, yes, i do think that if the app stemmic terms upon which you view thicks does not allow for the possibility of a symmetry,...
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as someone who is going to run for election in two years and has to get elected. do you get a sense that there's anyone who cares about this conflict from a political standpoint other than the groups that are obviously very, very invested in it? >> i think mostly it's the groups. my jewish constituency, most of which was taken out of my district in redistricting, cares strongly about it, understandably so. and the african-american community, which is the predominance of my district, i think it's a mixed feeling. but i think a lot of people relate with the palestinians. as being the underdogs and being like that and they see some ways, analogy to the struggle for civil rights. it's a mixed bag. but it's part of the whole agreement we've got to come to on the budget and part of the budget that some people want to have cut out is foreign aid. but we are the world's number one country. and as the world's number one country, we have certain obligations, not just for trade and commerce, but for humanitarian reasons there are things going on right now in goma where we ne
as someone who is going to run for election in two years and has to get elected. do you get a sense that there's anyone who cares about this conflict from a political standpoint other than the groups that are obviously very, very invested in it? >> i think mostly it's the groups. my jewish constituency, most of which was taken out of my district in redistricting, cares strongly about it, understandably so. and the african-american community, which is the predominance of my district, i...
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it's until there's a new constitution and a new elected parliament. however, temporary is always permanent. every single arab state, including mubarak's egypt. every arab state uses temporary -- >> mubarak has -- >> israel uses emergency laws from 1945. hitler never suspended the constitution. he's never aggregated it. he suspended it for four years. every four years until the soviet army overran berlin. temporary is permanent. that means, this is the way it is until you force me. >> in all the cases hussein is talking about, there's a marriage between the apparatus and the dictator. >> explain what you mean. >> you have the army ready to crack heads if people didn't like your temporary situation. >> we should all remember the context here. the security forces, their number one enemy were islamists, the muslim brotherhood. morsi did time in prison. they were tortured. security forces have an institutional memory of finding, spying on and imprisoning and beating the same people -- >> the top two generals in the army, right? >> they are behold ent to hi
it's until there's a new constitution and a new elected parliament. however, temporary is always permanent. every single arab state, including mubarak's egypt. every arab state uses temporary -- >> mubarak has -- >> israel uses emergency laws from 1945. hitler never suspended the constitution. he's never aggregated it. he suspended it for four years. every four years until the soviet army overran berlin. temporary is permanent. that means, this is the way it is until you force me....
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barack obama was never elected president. acorn put him in there. >> i think that's the universal impulse. the question is whether it's being cultivated or not. >> i want to say one thing about the difficulties of figuring out how many jobs are really being created. it's not an easy thing as you were saying. one of the problems is that when you turn the economy from, you know, sort of normal growth to either a turning point going up or down, the statistics have a real difficulty. one of the reasons is that the surveys go to typically establish enterprises. >> right. >> but when you have the turning point you're creating new turning points. you're not going to survey those because you don't know where they are. and that's where the household survey picks up things that are not in the establishment survey. >> right. >> on the other hand, one of the real problems is that we have what you call seasonal adjustments because there's a pattern over the year. before christmas we create normally more jobs. as we go into the summer, col
barack obama was never elected president. acorn put him in there. >> i think that's the universal impulse. the question is whether it's being cultivated or not. >> i want to say one thing about the difficulties of figuring out how many jobs are really being created. it's not an easy thing as you were saying. one of the problems is that when you turn the economy from, you know, sort of normal growth to either a turning point going up or down, the statistics have a real difficulty....
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he said if this election is about the economy, we lose. what he actually said in 2008 -- john mccain -- he said john mccain said if this is about the economy, we lose. take that out. then the romney people bragged that it showed how tough they were that they were willing to tell a lie, we're willing to get away with it and there's nothing you can do about it. >> i liked it. i think it was kevin phillips, the political strategist who said the republicans go for the jugular, the democrats go for the cap lairs. we're seeing the democrats go for the jugular and ferociously early to find. >> speaking of the jugular, can i play this? this is definitely -- i think this counts as a jugular. this was an ad that just was released today by the obama campaign. check it out. ♪ o beautiful for spatial skies "first look" for ever waves of grain snoetsz for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain ♪ ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ >> so there's that. what do you think of that? you
he said if this election is about the economy, we lose. what he actually said in 2008 -- john mccain -- he said john mccain said if this is about the economy, we lose. take that out. then the romney people bragged that it showed how tough they were that they were willing to tell a lie, we're willing to get away with it and there's nothing you can do about it. >> i liked it. i think it was kevin phillips, the political strategist who said the republicans go for the jugular, the democrats...
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russell pierce gets elected. 1998 arizona passed the clean election bill and that means candidates can get funding to match and the other funding. what that translated into is candidates of the more ideological extremes were able to get elected. also known as russell pierce. your chamber of commerce. that is why arizona get more of the russell pierce's. >> i'm not an arizonan. >> it starts in 1705. >> is it starts a hundred years ago. this is a centennial year for arizona. >> yes. >> when i was out west the thing i kept hearing from politicians and experts in colorado and new mexico you have to remember these states weren't in the union at the start of the 20th century. i have to remind my college students. giant holes in places like oklahoma and arizona in the country when you looked at the u.s. map. we didn't have the full continental united states. it's relevant if you're on the east coast and in d.c., baltimore, philadelphia corridor, there is an old party tradition. these states were colonies before they were states. if you're arizona you've only been a state for hundred years and
russell pierce gets elected. 1998 arizona passed the clean election bill and that means candidates can get funding to match and the other funding. what that translated into is candidates of the more ideological extremes were able to get elected. also known as russell pierce. your chamber of commerce. that is why arizona get more of the russell pierce's. >> i'm not an arizonan. >> it starts in 1705. >> is it starts a hundred years ago. this is a centennial year for arizona....
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we talked about the election and nothing will happen until after the election, but, yet, again, i'm not talking if there will be or not. i am talking about -- >> you're saying there should be. should be or not because this is the beauty of the united states of america as a leader of the free world. this is a duty. this is not a privilege or not a charity. they have to do that, but, unfortunately, mr. obama is busy right now. >> unilaterally do that, not now. >> i'm not talking -- i said several times. four countries can do that. united states, united kingdom and france and turkey. turkey because it has like 850 -- >> but the same day after question extends. look, i understand why you would call for this. i completely understand and, obviously, we're coming from extremely different places in this conversation. but the day after question which we see as the day after in iraq and the day after in afghanis n afghanistan. do you want an occupying force? >> and, yet, i ask for the simplest option of intervention and that is what i discussed with senator mccain when i met him. i said just an a
we talked about the election and nothing will happen until after the election, but, yet, again, i'm not talking if there will be or not. i am talking about -- >> you're saying there should be. should be or not because this is the beauty of the united states of america as a leader of the free world. this is a duty. this is not a privilege or not a charity. they have to do that, but, unfortunately, mr. obama is busy right now. >> unilaterally do that, not now. >> i'm not talking...
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we elect a romney 1.0 or we elect a scott brown. we know who these people are. scott brown has decided and i think he probably will dial this back in a second debate although i don't know. he has decided not to be that guy for the moment and i think that's thrown him off. >> one of the problems that scott brown has, one of his predecessors was attorney general back in massachusetts in 1964 when goldwater ran for president. edward brook was overwhelmingly re-elected, huge margin. what he did was he renounced lyndon johnson. he said, i am not a part of this national party. i am a republican. i'm going to fight to make the republican party something different. >> not barry goldwater. >> apologize. the critical thing to understand here is scott brown won't do that. if he does not do that, he will lose this race and he will lose this race because of his association with the national party. >> and the reason he won't do that is because the regional breakdowns in party discipline in the 1960s were very different than the regional breakdowns in the party discipline 2012
we elect a romney 1.0 or we elect a scott brown. we know who these people are. scott brown has decided and i think he probably will dial this back in a second debate although i don't know. he has decided not to be that guy for the moment and i think that's thrown him off. >> one of the problems that scott brown has, one of his predecessors was attorney general back in massachusetts in 1964 when goldwater ran for president. edward brook was overwhelmingly re-elected, huge margin. what he...
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the election is really getting everybody ready. the election will be over, we'll have four years. the president will make this an initiative that is important to him and his legacy and, let me just say, i remember in september of 2010, it was harry reid fighting for his life out in nevada saying we're going to support the dream act and he got savidgingly attacked for two years. we won that attack. we won california, we won colorado and we kept the majority in the senate because democrats stood up for immigrants. the president is going to stand up for immigrants and latinos. you have to understand, i think you have to understand one thing is that latinos look at you first and say, are you being kind? and are you being good with immigrants? if you are, i will listen to you on other issues. the president has taken a bold step, and i know he will be rewarded. >> democrat from illinois, thank you, both, for your time this morning. >>> what changing demographics mean. right after this. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting ta
the election is really getting everybody ready. the election will be over, we'll have four years. the president will make this an initiative that is important to him and his legacy and, let me just say, i remember in september of 2010, it was harry reid fighting for his life out in nevada saying we're going to support the dream act and he got savidgingly attacked for two years. we won that attack. we won california, we won colorado and we kept the majority in the senate because democrats stood...
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we are seeing super pacs play this outsized role in the election. i think that it has been chewed over quite a bit. it is not new. what i think is so interesting is that you think about in the presuper pac area, newt gingrich would have a hard time in terms of fund-raising because he doesn't have a lot of money and he -- and certainly compared to mitt romney. a billionaire casino -- owner wrote him a $5 million check to get up on the air on south carolina and maybe he wakes up this morning and says $10 million go play in florida. all of a sudden it is a whole new world. it seems to me that p that's the case, if sheldon can personally sponsor newt ginrich by giving money to a super pc in unlimited amounts you wonder if it is like if gingrich was elected president and he needed a favor on some casino piece of legislation, i think that call would definitely get taken. >> there is an anecdote about that that i think captures the essence of he is a diminutive stature. people know. and he was asked once, do you feel bad that you are sure. he said when i'm
we are seeing super pacs play this outsized role in the election. i think that it has been chewed over quite a bit. it is not new. what i think is so interesting is that you think about in the presuper pac area, newt gingrich would have a hard time in terms of fund-raising because he doesn't have a lot of money and he -- and certainly compared to mitt romney. a billionaire casino -- owner wrote him a $5 million check to get up on the air on south carolina and maybe he wakes up this morning and...
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i mean, generally as a rule, if you run an election and then run the same election with the same candidate 16 months later, in the absence of some massive world historical catastrophe, is not surprise to get the same result. leak tore rats don't change that much. politics don't change that much. it is not surprise and we should be clear what is contingent, what it portends for what november is what the ground game, the combination of billionaire money in postcitizens united era, grassroots mob hallization and activation from the tea party groups are still very organized even if you don't hear that much about them and then the coordination of all the media and institutions of the right, talk radio in suburbs of milwaukee, some of the most conservative suburbs of the north, that is what the game plan looks like for november. here is just to get a sense of how much the outside groups are playing in the presidential arena, not just the regulare ar aired by groups in 2012 versus 2008. may of 2008, outside groups aired 10,062 presidential campaign ads. may of 2012, they had aired 123,062 ads, an
i mean, generally as a rule, if you run an election and then run the same election with the same candidate 16 months later, in the absence of some massive world historical catastrophe, is not surprise to get the same result. leak tore rats don't change that much. politics don't change that much. it is not surprise and we should be clear what is contingent, what it portends for what november is what the ground game, the combination of billionaire money in postcitizens united era, grassroots mob...
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election after election we see this republican fantasy, that jews will embrace the republican party in really large numbers. it just never happens. >> is it a bank shot toward evangelical voters israel is -- there aren't enough of us jews in the united states to make a difference. >> voting republican in large numbers. might change new york. >> florida. jewish fund refresh big in american politics, see it in different ways for the obama campaign and mitt romney campaign that heaters in the politics. >> i think what republicans have really neglected mel lynn yas. that is a pool only going to keep expanding in terms of actually going out to the polls and voting as they age. voting patterns are set after three leeks and very likely the third election that many millennials vote democrat, because i don't think the republican party has been doing much to bring millennials in, even though there is a lot of i would say disgust and disdain for how they are not as excited the hope and change they vote for didn't play out. >> you have got somebody like rick santorum saying if you want to go to co
election after election we see this republican fantasy, that jews will embrace the republican party in really large numbers. it just never happens. >> is it a bank shot toward evangelical voters israel is -- there aren't enough of us jews in the united states to make a difference. >> voting republican in large numbers. might change new york. >> florida. jewish fund refresh big in american politics, see it in different ways for the obama campaign and mitt romney campaign that...
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>> to her point about elections, with citizens united you had one person, adelson buying one election in south carolina, possibly buying an election in florida. when person donated 5 million to newt gingrich that was -- he was a million dollars in debt. and literally, changed that election in south carolina. his wife has done the same. and this is -- if there was ever a constitutional amendment that we should pass, it's when to roll back citizens united, because it is allowing this few wealthy people to literally buy elections in america. >> congresswoman, you teed that up perfectly for me. we actually had going to talk about that issue later in the show. pulitzer prize-winning tax and income winner, david cay johnston. our pregame show for tomorrow's sunday morning political talk shows is right after this. [ ma le announcer ] indulge all you want. now there's no need to hold back. new revolutionary scope dualblast obliterates strong food odors leaving your breath minty fresh. hey. [ male announcer ] so there's no trace of evidence... new scope dualblast. flavored with real honey. pow
>> to her point about elections, with citizens united you had one person, adelson buying one election in south carolina, possibly buying an election in florida. when person donated 5 million to newt gingrich that was -- he was a million dollars in debt. and literally, changed that election in south carolina. his wife has done the same. and this is -- if there was ever a constitutional amendment that we should pass, it's when to roll back citizens united, because it is allowing this few...
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on one hand you have, obama is one of 17 american presidents to be elected to a second term, and yet we really understand now in some respects the illusions of the power of the second term president. to have another nominee, perhaps the president's preferred candidate for the pentagon, secretary of defense, premptively challenged is remarkable and extraordinary. one other point that needs to be made regardless of who becomes secretary of defense, barack obama is most withholding president since richard nixon. there's no question about that. all power on the consequential issues of war and peace, afghanistan, iraq, the war on terror, big think strategy in iran, the israeli palestinian peace process, during his first term came in and out of the white house. secretary clinton, we'll never know whether she could be a consequential great secretary of state because the presidential essentially dominates. he does not delegate. and the reality is both at state and defense, the interesting question will be it seems to me on whether or not in the second term the president will allow his nation
on one hand you have, obama is one of 17 american presidents to be elected to a second term, and yet we really understand now in some respects the illusions of the power of the second term president. to have another nominee, perhaps the president's preferred candidate for the pentagon, secretary of defense, premptively challenged is remarkable and extraordinary. one other point that needs to be made regardless of who becomes secretary of defense, barack obama is most withholding president since...
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announcement olympia snowe will not run for re-election. mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now, get 5% cashback at gas stations. it pays to discover. cleaning better doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. i'm gonna...use these. ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] unlike mops, swiffer can maneuver into tight spaces without the hassle and its wet mopping cloths can clean better in half the time, so you don't miss a thing. mom? ahhhh! ahhhh! no it's mommy! [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. pavrmgts week was not a good week for the nearly extinct so-called moderate republican. first there was republican senator scott brown running for re-election in massachusetts. co-sponsoring the blunt amendment, allowing insurance based on their own moral beliefs. susan collins of maine, often called moderate, voted in favor of the amendme
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he won the 2010 midterm elections. the biggest walloping of the democrats since the '40s and the guy gets run out on a rail, frankly. there weren't people that didn't like he wanted to change things. why is that important? let's put this in context. we were talking off camera about other issues of importance in this country. republicans can't even engage in this dialogue because they're afraid of being called racist. the reason they're afraid of being called racist they don't have anybody that looks like me, you can't trot out condoleezza rice and others when it is convenient for you at the convention every four years and not have them in the party. who is advising mitt romney who is a high-ranking atalking to hm about issues that matter to people of color in this country. you must have people who reflect the diversity of this culture and they don't have it. on incarceration issues, what are they going to say? if i'm mitt romney i'll afraid to talk about the high number of african-americans. he goes to the naacp and he
he won the 2010 midterm elections. the biggest walloping of the democrats since the '40s and the guy gets run out on a rail, frankly. there weren't people that didn't like he wanted to change things. why is that important? let's put this in context. we were talking off camera about other issues of importance in this country. republicans can't even engage in this dialogue because they're afraid of being called racist. the reason they're afraid of being called racist they don't have anybody that...
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we had a president-elected in 2008 who campaigned on transparency. and i think has some sympathy for whistle-blowers, at least, has stated it as such. then comes into office and enforces the espionage act more times than anyone before him. why is that? well, i think it's not surprising, and it's part of the reason i wrote the book, we have a much easier time admiring people who break ranks and go against the grain, in the abstract, and from a distance, and after the fact. you know, 50 years later. we look at people who resisted the nazis, and we call them the righteous. when we find people who break ranks closer to us, who challenge our own government, who challenge our own beliefs, who get in the way of the agenda, in a politician's case, they want to pursue, it becomes a different matter entirely, and i wanted to bring out some of that tension and really get people thinking in a more complicated way about what it means to break ranks. >> i want to talk about some of the specific characters in the book. but someone who comes to mind in this conversa
we had a president-elected in 2008 who campaigned on transparency. and i think has some sympathy for whistle-blowers, at least, has stated it as such. then comes into office and enforces the espionage act more times than anyone before him. why is that? well, i think it's not surprising, and it's part of the reason i wrote the book, we have a much easier time admiring people who break ranks and go against the grain, in the abstract, and from a distance, and after the fact. you know, 50 years...